Head Of Business Architecture

Are you passionate about aligning business strategy with operational excellence? Do you want to play a key role in shaping the future of technology and transformation in a high-impact public sector organisation?

The Crown Commercial Service plays a vital role in enabling government organisations to access innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions. At the forefront of digital transformation, CCS drives initiatives that enhance public procurement and deliver exceptional value. Through its Digital & Data Services directorate, CCS is building a world-class digital capability to revolutionise how the public sector operates and achieves its strategic goals.

As a Business Architect, you will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and optimising capabilities, value streams, and processes that align CCS’s business strategy with operational excellence. You will collaborate with leadership to understand the organisation’s vision, work with cross-functional teams to design operating models that support strategic goals, and partner with the Enterprise Architecture function to provide a “north star” for driving transformation activities and improving efficiency.

You will be joining the Business Architecture team within Digital Strategy & Design at CCS, part of the wider DDS Directorate. This team plays a pivotal role in understanding current states, designing the organisation’s strategic future state, and driving its adoption to deliver meaningful and lasting impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Guiding, developing, and governing the CCS Business Architecture function to shape the organisation’s long-term strategy and future state.
• Leading, coaching, and developing a team of business architects and continuous improvement practitioners.
• Ensuring the alignment of Business Architecture with broader governance frameworks, mitigating risks and assuring corporate services.
• Defining the vision for business capabilities and value streams using architecture and collaboration tools utilised within CCS.
• Identifying and anticipating business impacts, issues, and activities, shaping principles, patterns, standards, processes, plans, and policies accordingly.
• Producing and maintaining scalable, standard models to make information accessible and actionable for stakeholders.
• Driving the creation of transition plans, roadmaps, and strategic alignment, ensuring technology investments align with business objectives.
• Fostering connections with senior stakeholders, actively identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Staying informed on external influences that could support or hinder strategic goals, inspiring others to achieve organisational objectives.
• Driving process optimisation and improvement through detailed analysis and design.

At CCS, we’re building the future of public sector transformation. Join us in this exciting opportunity to lead innovation, optimise capabilities, and help shape a modern and efficient organisation that delivers value to government and society.

Additional Information:

Inclusion is embedded throughout the organisation, in our thought processes, in our strategy, in our business processes and in our governance. Inclusion requires action, to ensure people are included who might otherwise be excluded or marginalised, and ensuring a culture that fosters a true sense of belonging. Being an inclusive employer means that all colleagues, at every level of the organisation, have to make a choice to be inclusive, and this will be our norm.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging.